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Christina Pushaw, Saakashvili, and Fishback: The Missing Record and Unanswered Questions

A source-linked brief separating primary-record findings, reported material, preserved artifacts, and unresolved leads.

Bottom line and open questions

The documented connection is Pushaw-to-Saakashvili. The broader questions involve Soros, Zelenskyy, Fishback, and what Pushaw carried into Florida.

FARA records show Pushaw did communications and outreach work for Saakashvili tied to Georgian politics from 2018 through 2020. During that work, Zelenskyy appointed Saakashvili to a Ukrainian reform post and Pushaw promoted favorable messaging about the appointment. Open Society has a long Georgia civil-society footprint.

Questions raised by the record

  • How did Pushaw move from advising Saakashvili and publicly supporting Zelenskyy's appointment of him to privately advising Fishback?
  • What, if anything, from her study in Moscow and political communications work in Georgia and Ukraine informed her approach to American political figures?
  • Did methods developed during that overseas work shape her messaging, media, opposition-research, or social-media advice to Fishback?
  • What explains Pushaw's repeated movement into the orbit of political leaders and candidates?
DOJ/FARA #7122 FARA Exhibit AB, June 2022 FARA amended Exhibit AB, July 2022 Ukrainian presidency: Saakashvili appointment Pushaw article on the appointment Civil Society Foundation / former OSGF Saakashvili-Zelenskyy chain Fishback record

Documented

A: Primary record

FARA documents the relationship

FARA #7122 ties Pushaw to communications, media, op-ed, TV, and policymaker outreach work for Mikheil Saakashvili.

Documented

A: Primary record

The work centered on Georgia politics

The filing says the goal included raising Saakashvili's international profile for a future return to Georgian politics.

Documented indirect link

A: Primary record

The Zelenskyy connection runs through Saakashvili

Zelenskyy appointed Saakashvili to Ukraine's reform council in May 2020. Pushaw continued working for Saakashvili and published favorable commentary about the appointment.

Review the documented chain

New Florida record

A: Primary record

Pushaw acknowledged advising Fishback

Pushaw said she spoke with James Fishback frequently for two months and offered advice on his gubernatorial campaign. She described the relationship as informal and unpaid.

Review the Fishback record